CV Giorgio Lizzul

Education

• PhD, History, King’s College London, 2017. Dissertation: “The Utility of Wealth in the Era of the Public Debt 1300–1500”. Financed by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
• MA, History of Political Thought and Intellectual History, UCL & Queen Mary, University of London, 2011
• BSc, Government and Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2010

Experience

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Vienna (2025–2027)
• Postdoctoral Researcher, Università degli Studi di Milano (2024–2025)
• Projekt: Under Uncertainty. Coping with Risks in the Mediterranean Maritime Business (16th–19th c.)
• Postdoctoral Researcher, Fondazione 1563 per l’arte e la cultura (Turin Humanities Programme, 2022–24) / Dipartimento di Studi Storici, Università di Torino
• ERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, European Research Council project Aristotle in the Italian Vernacular, c.1400–c.1650, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Warwick, UK (2018–2019)
• Teaching Fellow in Medieval History, Department of History, King’s College London (2016–2017)
• Teaching at the Queen Mary University of London and the University College London (UCL)

Fellowships

• Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University (2022)
• Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Neulateinische Studien, Innsbruck, Austria (2021)
• Jean-François Malle Fellow, I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence, Italy (2020–2021)
• Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick (2019–heute)
• Newberry Library, Chicago (2019)
• Rome Award, The British School at Rome (2015)

Research interests

• Economic thinking and fiscal administration in medieval and early modern Italy
• history of political thought
• public debt, moral and political economy
• metaphors of the body as a political community
• risk management and maritime insurance
• Aristotelianism

Selected publications

• Debt and the Republic: Economic Thought and Public Debt in Italy, c.1250–1550 (monograph in preparation)
• “Narrating the History of Debt in Venetian Chronicles ca. 1300–ca. 1500” in Cultures of Exchange: Mercantile Mentalities Between Italy and the World, eds. William Caffero, Susanna Barsella, and Germano Maifreda. In press (forthcoming 2026). Toronto: Toronto University Press.
• “Taking a Breath: The Representation of the Venetian Debt and Common Good,” in Mobilising Money for the Public Good (il Mulino, 2024)
• “Un nuovo ritratto fiscale della Venezia del Quattrocento,” Storia Economica 1/2024
• Rethinking the Work Ethic in Early Modern Europe (ed. with G. Almási, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
• “Liberality as a Fiscal Problem in Medieval and Renaissance Thought,” Journal of the History of Ideas 83/3 (2022), 363–385